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See Adopt a Highway volunteers across Arizona caught in the act on National CleanUp Day 2025.
ADOT has more than 100 specialty license plates featuring a range of worthy causes or charities. To boost awareness, we showcase one specialty license plate each week on social media. We call this the "Specialty Plate Spotlight" and here are the plates that were featured in September.
We're thrilled to have John Bullen, Assistant Executive Director with the Maricopa Association of Government (MAG), join us for this week's episode of On the Road With ADOT. While ADOT will build the projects, MAG manages the funding and scheduling of the improvements under a Strategic Transportation Plan.

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A structure known as a straddle bent will be part of the South Mountain Freeway/I-10 Papago Freeway interchange. Take a look at straddle bents in use elsewhere.
Starting this week, we’re rebuilding this stretch of I-40 starting with a new foundation. It’s a long-term fix for the damage winter wants to cause the roadway every year.
As of Oct. 1, 2020, the federal government will require your driver license or ID to comply with the REAL ID Act if you want to use it to enter an airport or other federally controlled facility.
A segment of the original US 89 was designated as a historic road in part because it was the first north-south road across Arizona.
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Here's why many of our dynamic message signs will display music-themed safety messages this weekend.
An unusual perspective on construction in Tucson is featured in this week's Art of Transportation.
Two big projects are ahead, but the impact during construction should be minimal.
Many have taken notice of the safety messages on ADOT's overhead message boards, but the agency has been trying to get drivers' attention for many years.
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